Infrastructure

Network Virtualization and Managment; The Final Pieces

Posted by on August 22, 2011 at 1:12 pm

Tweet Although I can’t indulge as I would like to, I still love desserts.  I love all kinds but nothing beats a good piece of cake.  My great grandmother, grandmother, and mother all used to make an old fashioned molasses stack cake.  Instead of two or three thick layers, this cake is made up of [...]

What is cloud and does it fit in a Box?

Posted by on August 14, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Tweet At the risk of appearing to be uncool and not in the know, I want to ask the question what is cloud?Is “cloud” a tangible product? Is it a service provided by a vendor? Is cloud a way of designing your architecture? Is it a marketing term?  Is it a destination? Is cloud an [...]

Elements of Virtualization: Converged Storage

Posted by on August 5, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Tweet There are many buzzwords and phrases flying around technology today.  Cloud seems to be one of the mosed used, misued, and abused.  A close second has to be ____ as a Service.  The latter has mostly become IT as a Service.    Once you look at information technology as a service we move our thinking [...]

EMCworld 2011 – Final Thoughts

Posted by on May 16, 2011 at 9:02 am

Tweet EMCworld 2011 has come and gone.  As I prepare to get back to work, I am trying to digest all of the information and apply it.  Someone last week said it is beyond the cliche of drinking from a fire hose to just trying to decide which hose to drink from.  From analyzing materials [...]

Cloud, Big Data, and little old me

Posted by on May 11, 2011 at 10:02 am

Tweet The EMCworld theme this year is “Cloud Meets Big Data”. If you are in IT or follow technology news you are well aware of these terms. You may not be aware of what they mean but that doesn’t stop most people from using them. I’ve met and spoken to several other conference attendees most [...]